On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote:
Lightning Source would then send us a royalty check, I think it's
every three months. We can just have them send it to Max and he can
disburse any funds.
You OK with this, Max? We could just plan for this, and it would make
me feel a lot better if we got this problem out of the way first ^_^
I am ok with this, if Lightning Source is what everyone wants to do. I
know nothing about Lightning Source, but I trust the judgement of the
larger group.
3-4. Introduction by current FPL (if Paul doesn't take up two pages,
make page 3 blank)
If there's 4 books, I'd be honored to write an introduction for one of
them as an ex-FPL. :)
5. Introduction of the foundation whose story is being told in this
book, with wonderful Four Foundations livery provided by Mo
6-77. Photos and stories of contributors
78-79. Index of contributors across all books published so far
80. Left blank because LSI told us to (they stick an internal barcode
on here)
I envision the pages being in full color. LSI will print a full color
book, sized 8.5" x 8.5" (whoa, another parallel to The Love Book!)
with 80 pages, for $8.20 per unit (book). Setup for the title comes
out to $75 (half for the cover, half for the pages), and to make the
book available to Amazon and the like, we are charged $12/yr for each
ISBN.
Sounds like a beautiful project.
The initial cost, then, is $711.80 for the four books. Setting the
wholesale markup to $15 keeps the price reasonable for both buyers and
us -- we can recoup the cost for all four books with 105 sales.[1] Add
to this an additional $48/yr after the first year -- and remember,
this isn't including any additional books that we may want to produce
after these four. Also, keep in mind that we still have six more ISBNs
to do whatever with. The initial cost for the next six books would be
$87 plus $12 per year after the first year.
At this dollar figure, is it better to just produce them and hand them
out as gifts to the community? We're not talking about huge amounts of
money here (comparatively).
1. Does this sound reasonable? Does it seem viable that we can sell 105
copies in a year? For those who will be in the book, or other Fedora
contributors, or other Fedora fans, the $60 for the first set of four
price seems a bit large. I'm not really sure.
I think demand would easily surpass 105.
I'm quite excited that we're seeing life to this project :)
Definitely. It's a great idea, and a great exercise in collaboration.
--Max
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